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Thwaitesia species?
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Thwaitesia species?
(Suggested identity based on similarities with known Thwaitesia species)
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female: about 3 mm
male: about 2.5 mm
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Probably a small tangled web like that of redback and grey house spiders but in green vegetation
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Probably far too small to cause a human envenomation
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This male may actually be an example of the male of the two known Queensland Thwaitesia species: T. argentiopunctata and T. nigronodosa.
Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Thwaitesia argentiopunctata and Thwaitesia nigronodosa.
Email Ron Atkinson for more information.
Last updated 4 July 2010.
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